True to form, BEFORE the show even aired, scientology had their smears up about Chantal Dodson and Sherry Ollins. These people literally have no shame. Nor sense. But they seem to have a limitless supply of bullshit. They begin with a clever Halloween theme: "Just in time for Halloween, Leah Remini and A&E continue their religious witch hunt." That is an award-winner. They opt for broad generalities, Chantal "ranks among the most ludicrous and transparently false yet. To say they never happened is a gross understatement. Chantal’s absurd claims fit the modus operandi for Rem … [Read more...]
Amsterdam Ribbon Yank
This weekend, appropriate for the Halloween season, Captain Miscavige performed a ribbon yanking ceremony on his latest haunted house. In a nation with just a small handful of active scientologists, he presided over an intimate gathering to officially open this 79,000 sq ft monster. Every scientologist in the country can have their own room in this place. Even their official website photo only claims 1300 attendees and with wide angle lenses and every other trick they know they still cannot make it look even passingly impressive... And this is with 7 chartered planes worth of people … [Read more...]
Flag OTC News
Some interesting information here. Plenty of evidence things are not all peachy at Flag. Just a few comments: They are trying to double the number of IAS members by reducing the annual membership fee and sending a mailing to everyone who has ever bought a book! Ha. Good luck with that. Although they disclose the REAL intent -- to get people to higher statuses and that is ONLY about money. THE most successful Clear event yet had 30 attendees. Yes, 30. And they then go on to say there are more Clears than any other case level... There are less than 50,000 people on earth who … [Read more...]
IAS Hype
Time for some IAS hype about the annual Celebration. It's slightly dated, but a bit of fun nevertheless. They spin themselves into such a frenzy all I can think about is the old cartoon of the Tasmanian Devil. This is what the town criers who try to excite the sheeple remind me of... Everything is SO over the top. It is like an insane tornado of superlatives and absurd descriptions of their minimal accomplishments it is like a parody. Here is the poster: How many times have they said "The time is now"? 50? 100? The "torch is lit" -- "we are on the launching pad", "the … [Read more...]
Education, Memory, Grains of Sand, and Scientology
It's SaTerraday. Education, Memory, Grains of Sand, and Scientology How we learn doesn’t jive with LRH’s paradigm of the human mind. Since Ron was so “stats-oriented,” let’s start with the numbers. He said we’ve all lived for quadrillions of years. By multiplying this number times all the pictures in all our memories over this period, we come up with an amount greater than the number of grains of sand on Earth. Whoa. Terra Math One quadrillion (ten to the fifteenth power, 10^15, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) times (x) one trillion memories per lifetime (completely arbitrary figure) … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
RB is still on hiatus. This was the LRH birthday 2016 edition. Another of my personal favorites. … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Recovering Your Infinity of Future... So weird. And this is apparently an "OT" doing this at ASHO... The Future of Mankind... In the hands of these guys? Oh shit, that's not good. SUMP at work... But they seem a little late. 2016 has been our best year ever? I thought we were in 2017 now? The one and only... This is one of the guys who ran away when he saw me at the airport. Confronting and shattering credit cards perhaps? On skype... OMG, what a privilege. Perhaps he will explain the secret to his … [Read more...]
Aftermath The Business of Religion Special: The Aftermath
Scientology's usual response to each episode of The Aftermath appeared on their hate site before the show had even finished airing. They focused their attention on Mat Pesch and Jeffrey Augustine. They KNOW they cannot make the same sort of insane rants about Luis Garcia or Ted Babbitt because they will present it before the Judge in their case. So, they stay mum and pretend they did not appear on the show. How embarrassing it would be to have a judge read their drivel. But Mat and Jeffrey of course got the full "scientology treatment." Mat of course is the "unvetted Mat … [Read more...]
Scientology’s Massive International Expansion… cough, cough
First things first, the blog... Nathan Rich provided a layman’s explanation of what happened to the blog over the weekend – I asked him to make it so even I could understand it: Here's how it works and what the evidence is. If you have a computer you can make it do stuff, like host a website -- but then you have people who need access to those websites. But you don't want them to have access to your system, because you're the owner, not them. There's different ways to handle this. The normal way smaller hosting services do it is by using “jails” -- they set up many sort of "sub-en … [Read more...]
Desperate Times Call For…
My oh my -- trying to smear lipstick on the IAS pig. Clearly, the number of new members is plummeting. So, as with all things scientology, the answer is money. In this case, cut the cost of the membership to try to get more. But if the cost of admission of $500 is too high -- these people are NOT going to be able to be scientologists. You cannot buy anything of significance in scientology for $500. So, they just want NUMBERS and they clearly believe that if they charge less they are going to get more membership sign ups and annual renewals. But they are ignoring the most obvious … [Read more...]
Everything Takes Longer….
Saturday, time for Terra Cognita! Everything Takes Longer in Scientology Scientologists may be cause over Matter, Energy, and Space. But “Time?” I think that ability must be addressed on OT 11. I would be generous in stating that all targets set by the church take twice as long as they say they will. If management sets a target of ten hours...double, triple, or quadruple this number. If the Director of Processing or Director of Training says an auditing or training action will take eight weeks...change the word “weeks” to “months.” If church leader, David Miscavige—master of prevarication … [Read more...]
Regraded Being
Rumor has it Regarded Being will return from hiatus next week. In the meantime, one of the earliest RB's which was I believe the introduction of "Podium Dave"... … [Read more...]
Thursday Funnies
Africa's Winning Bet nobody realized that... including whoever wrote this. And what "historic victory" are they trying to be part of? That LRHED was written about Portland in the 80's. Seems they have a bit of a "comm lag" Epic It's always EPIC. And they got the Energizer Bunny or Energy Driver or something who is going to bring the lightning or something. The only important thing - do not forget your wallet. That's a lot of stuff Successful. Empowering. A party. Launch to Freedom and Ability. Open House. Phew... Freewinds … [Read more...]
STAAD Scientology Conspiracy Theories
This is another piece that appears on the STAAD site. They got me to go check it out this site with their silly boycott business.... Otherwise I probably would never have seen it. While nosing around I came across this amazing piece of work. According to this genius The Aftermath is a plot by.... BIG PHARMA! I wish I knew about this... I have put her full article below along with some of my editorial comments in red.... Scientology and Conspiracy: The Real Story Perhaps you’ve come across “the real story” about Scientology on your Facebook feed, television screen or on some tab … [Read more...]
The STAAD League Boycott
The Scientologists Taking Action Against Discrimination (STAAD) League has been playing the victim card for a while now and have come up with a new tactic of orchestrating a letter writing campaign to advertisers on The Aftermath. You may recall their earlier "victory" of claiming to get copies of People magazine removed from the shelves of a Target store because Leah Remini was on the cover. It was a "huge blow for religious freedom" -- even though it almost certainly didn't happen -- but didnt do much for the concept of freedom of speech that scientology spouts as one of their … [Read more...]